Method of tying bows



Sept. 2, I930.

A. NOVlCK IETHOD OF TYING BOWS Filed Feb. 25. 1928 I nventor Patented Sept. 2, 1930 UNITED STATES PATENT A OFFICE ABRAHAM NOVIOK, OI ILUSHIN'G, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO I. L. SMITH]! MACEI NE (10., INC., 01' NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION 01 NEW YORK METHOD OF TYING BOWS Application fled February 85, 1928. Serial No. 256,914.

This invention relates to amethod or process of tying bows. A principal object of the present invention is to simplify and thus facilitate the manner of making bow knots.

The following is a description of one method of practicing the invention; but it will be understood that various modifications and changes may be made therein without departing from the spirit of the invention and without exceeding the scope of the claims.

The invention will best be understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 illustrates a box or package about which has been preliminarily wrapped a tape or ribbon;

Figure 2 shows the free ends of the ribbon folded backward upon themselves so g that portions of the ribbon form interlocked primary loops;

Figure 3 indicates the position with reference to the portions of the ribbon intermediate the free ends and the mutually engaging primary loops of Figure 2 of grippers, shown for purposes of convenient illustration as the ends of two pairs of pliers;

Figure 4 shows secondary loops formed by reversing the direction of each of the ends of the ribbon beyond the primary loops to cause the portion thereof intermediate suchfree end and its primary loop to pass around the jaws of one of the pairs of pliers, and thence between the jaws of the other pair of pliers, preparatory to being gripped thereby;

Figure 5 shows reliminary bows formed by the pliers ripping the intermediate portions of the ribbon ends, respectively, and, by movement of said pliers in opposite directions, drawing said gripped intermediate portions through the loops as illustrated;

Figure 6 shows the resulting bow knot after it has been drawn tight.

Like reference characters indicate like parts throughout the drawings.

Referring to the drawings, the method or process may be carried out in the following manner: As indicated in Figure 1, preliminarily wrapped around a box or other package A is a tape or ribbon, designated generally as B, the free ends C and D of which extend in substantiall o posite directions. Free end C is swung bac ard upon itself, viz, to the right as shown in Figure 2, and around a portion of the end D; while free end D is swung backward upon itself, viz, to

the left as shown in Figure 2, and around a portion of the end C. This results in the formation of two interlooped primary loops G and H. This defines fixed lengths C and D adjacent the package A.

It will be understood that the bow knots may be formed by the fingers, rather than by the aid of tools; but, for convenience in v illustratin grippers are shown in the form of the on s of jaws of two pairs of pliers,

- designated respectively as I and J.

Referring now to Figure 3; one of the rip ers I, is held down upon the end D and the xed length D at a short distance from the primary loop H so that a short intermediate length E intervenes between the gripper and the primary loop H, while the end of the other gripper J is passed over the end C and under the fixed length C of the ribbon at a short distance from the primary loop G so that a short intermediate length F intervenes between the gripper J and the primary loop G. It will be noted from Fi re 3 that the jaws of each gripper are slig tly opened.

With the ribbon and the grippers in the positions shown in Figure 3 and just described, and, as appears from Figure 4, free end C of the ribbon is brought upward and over the jaws of gripper J, and inserted between the jaws o gripper I, thereby forming a secondary loop K about gri per J. Either simultaneously or sequentiall free end D is brought upward and over the jaws of gripper I, and inserted between the jaws of gripper J, thereby forming a secondary loop 'L about plier I. Thereafter, the jaws I of the grippers, respectively, are brought into gripping engagement with the end portions of the ribbon inserted therebetween.

As appears from Figure 5, the pliers are then moved in opposite directions, whereby gripper I draws through loop L its gripped portion of the ribbon, forming therein a bow loop M; and gripper J draws through loops 'secure -un er the conditions of G and K its rtion of the ribbon thusforming tl i gi n :l bow loop N. Inci dental to the forming of the two bow loops, the knot is also formed.

In Figure 6 the bow knot is shown as it up ars when drawn ti ht.

The invention provi es a simple method of eflectin a bow tie which is adequately ordinary handling, but which ma be readily untied when desired b merely ends of the rib on; and this result is accomlished without the necessity of forming a ot preliminary to the tym of the bow knot. The elimination of suc preliminary knot is of particular advantage where it 19 desired to form the bow ties automaticall vention broadly in whatever form its principle may be utilized.

' 1. The method herein described which consists in combining the opposite ends of a length of ribbon to form interlooped primary 100 s, forming a secondary reverse loop in eac free end of the ribbon, and then drawing one free end through the secondary loop formed in the opposite end, and drawing the second end through both the primary loop and the secondary 100 of the first en 2. The method herelndescribed which consists in combining the opposite ends of a length of ribbon to form interlooped but unknotted loops, for a secondary reverse loop in each free end 0 the ribbon, and drawing 'an intermediate portion of one free end through the secondary loop of the opposite end, and drawing an intermediate portion of the second vfree end of the ribbon through both the primary loop and the secondary loop of the first end to form bow loops.

3. The method herein described which consists in combinin the opposite ends of a length of ribbon y folding each end about an intermediate portion of the other end to form two co-operative loops, forming a secondary loop in the portion of each free end intermediate the extreme end and the primary loop'thereof, and drawing through each said secondar loop a portion of the opposite end of'the ri bon intermediate the extreme end and the secondary loop thereof, at the same time drawin at least one of said ends through the primary 00p of the opposite end also.

4. The method herein described which consists in drawing a ribbon about'an article combining the opposite ends of the ribbon by mterlooglng the ends without knotting to delengths adjacent the article, reversawing on the free interlooping the opposite ends of the ribbon without knotting to define fixed lengths adjacent the article, reversing the direction of each free end to define in each end an intermediate length and a free length, and-drawing a portion of one end length beneath the fixed length and between the intermediate and end lengths of the second end, and a ortion of the second end length over the ed length and between the intermediate and end lengths of the first end, to form a bow knot.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature to this spegification.

RAHAM NOVICK. 

